Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spinning a copy of John Brown's Body. He eyed the audience intently to find out just what kind of people he was addressing. Yet he spoke quietly, without the rhetorical crescendos expected from a writer of Inaugurals, and did not seem to revise his delivery according to its impact. His voice was so low-keyed that the people in back complained he was unexciting; those in front were far more moved. It is Goodwin's argument, not his delivery, that is convincing. The man is an analyst, not a salesman...
EDGAR ULMER'S films constitute a relatively unknown group of excellent low-budget pictures made during a period of more than 30 years. His art is in many respects highly pictorial, yet in the most developed films his complicated intellect adds dimension to the straightforward impact of the images. In The Black Cat and The Naked Dawn, initially simple confrontations are made ambiguous by Ulmer's elusive concept of morality. The camera often works against the script in directing audience sympathies, and should we feel secure in our assessment of character relationships, Ulmer will invariably undermine the status...
...Impact on Israel. In those days, the Mediterranean was considered an American lake, and the Soviets had just begun to awaken to the potentialities of seapower. In the early '60s, the Soviets began to build up their navy all over the world (TIME cover, Feb. 23). Now the U.S. must reckon with the Soviet force in the Mediterranean-and so must the Israelis. When Soviet-made Styx missiles, fired from a torpedo boat by Egyptians, sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said in an incident in October 1967, the Israelis dared not retaliate directly for fear of hitting...
...Italian navy. But as U.S. Admiral Horacio Rivero, commander of NATO forces in Southern Europe, notes: "While the Soviet flotilla is a potential military threat, its greatest importance is political and psychological. The number of ships is not too important. The presence of one ship has a political impact...
...officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship...